The History Graduate Student Association at Virginia Tech would greatly
appreciate your help in spreading the word on your H-list about our
upcoming graduate conference in history. The deadline for paper
submissions has recently been extended until January 17, 2014. The
announcement is below:
The History Graduate Student Association at Virginia Tech is pleased to
announce a call for papers for the 17th Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative
Perspectives in History Graduate Conference. This interdisciplinary
conference will be held at the Virginia Tech Graduate Life Center in
Blacksburg, on March 21-22, 2014. The conference will begin on Friday with
a keynote address by Dr. Margaret Jacobs of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln on her most recent book White Mother to a Dark Race:
Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children
in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. On Saturday, Dr. W.
Fitzhugh Brundage, a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of
American History and a professor from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, will present his lecture on culture and memory of the
Civil War entitled
“News from the Front: The Civil War is Over!” Presenters are asked to
submit a one-page abstract and a brief CV no later than January 17, 2014.
Thank you very much!
Tom Seabrook
Bertoti Conference Administrative Committee
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